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The Clippers will waive Carlos Delfino and Miroslav Raduljica Friday days after trading for them.

The players, acquired in a trade with the Milwaukee Bucks earlier this week, will be waived using the stretch provision.

The stretch provision allows the Clippers to ease Delfino’s and Raduljica’s salary cap burden over double the length of their contracts plus one season, meaning the Clippers will have 20 percent of each player’s deal on their books for the next five seasons.

Teams have until Aug. 31 to waive players under the provision.

The Clippers paid a steep price to clear the roster and salary room, sending Jared Dudley and a 2017 first-round pick to Milwaukee on Tuesday.

The Clippers have sent small forward Jared Dudley to the Milwaukee Bucks in a trade bringing back veteran Carlos Delfino and big man Miroslav Raduljica. In order to get out of the final two years of Dudley's contract, the Clippers also sent Milwaukee a future first round pick.

Dudley, acquirred last summer along with J.J. Redick in a three-team trade that cost the Clippers Eric Bledsoe, struggled in his one year with the team.

Demoted from the starting lineup midway through the year and dealing with a nagging knee injury, Dudley 6.9 points on a career-worst 43.8 percent shooting.

Dudley was due $9 million over the next two seasons.

Delfino, a 6-foot-6 wing, missed all of last season following surgery on his right foot. He's still trying to recover from the injury and isn't expected to be ready once the season begins.

TORONTO – Clippers coach Doc Rivers and Toronto coach Dwane Casey aren’t opposed to using the numbers available to gain an edge.

But when it comes to the Clippers’ 3-point percentages, neither coach puts any real stock in the data. Instead, both have decided to trust their eyes and their heads.

Thanks to a pair of hot shooting nights, the Clippers have upped their 3-point percentage to 34.4 percent. That’s 25th best in the league. The Clippers have tried the third-most shots from 3-point range.

With so much emphasis placed on adding shooting this offseason, whether the Clippers are actually a good 3-point shooting team or not is still up for debate. “I’ll let you know after the game,” Rivers joked before the Clippers’ hit 12-of-22 Saturday in Toronto. “I think we are. We just haven’t shot them well. But if you go by the numbers, historically, of each guy shooting them, yeah, (we are.)

Even with the coach and the star point guard in the fold, the Clippers’ offseason still wasn’t close to being over.

Other changes had to be made, and those changes included a major shakeup in the team’s regular rotation. Before the official start of free agency, the Clippers cooked up a deal with the Milwaukee Bucks and Phoenix Suns that would drastically alter the team.

The first major move shored up a big need on the perimeter and created a question about the team’s bench.